Continuous measurements of two qubits
Abstract
We develop a theory of coherent quantum oscillations in two, in general interacting, qubits measured continuously by a mesoscopic detector with arbitrary non-linearity and discuss an example of SQUID magnetometer that can operate as such a detector. Calculated spectra of the detector output show that the detector non-linearity should lead to mixing of the oscillations of the two qubits. For non-interacting qubits oscillating with frequencies and , the mixing manifests itself as spectral peaks at the combination frequencies . Additional nonlinearity introduced by the qubit-qubit interaction shifts all the frequencies. In particular, for identical qubits, the interaction splits coherent superposition of the single-qubit peaks at . Quantum mechanics of the measurement imposes limitations on the height of the spectral peaks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408471,
title = {Continuous measurements of two qubits},
author = {Wenjin Mao and Dmitri V. Averin and Francesco Plastina and Rosario Fazio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408471},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 6 figures